Tuesday, February 20, 2007

bhaarat

a bus station between pune and alibaag (we took the wrong bus--yeah)
[Maharashtra, India, January 2007]

the same bus station
[Maharashtra, India, January 2007]

bullock racing on the beach
[Alibaag, India, January 2007]

life's rough on a coconut plantation
[Alibaag, India, January 2007]

coming into the ominously hazy mumbai
[Mumbai, India, January 2007]

tetrapods! (read Midnight's Children)
[Mumbai, India, January 2007]

chowpatty beach (again, you should be reading at least something by Salman Rushdie)
[Mumbai, India, January 2007]

a train station. vt, if you will.
[Mumbai, India, January 2007]

street scene outside of vt
[Mumbai, India, January 2007]

my second-favorite cat, timon
[Pune, India, January 2007]


roofs
[Pune, India, January 2007]

a scene at home
[Pune, India, January 2007]

winter, arctic circle-style

the beach at st andrews
[St Andrews, Scotland, November 2006]

again
[St Andrews, Scotland, November 2006]

and again
[St Andrews, Scotland, November 2006]

oops, i screwed up the white balance. roula looks perplexed
[St Andrews, Scotland, December 2006]

a brussell sprouts field on a remarkably nice day
[Fife, Scotland, December 2006]

the church by the field of sprouts
[Fife, Scotland, December 2006]

slides at the tate modern
[London, England, December 2006]

our host struts her stuff in cambridge
[Cambridge, England, December 2006]

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Maroc

our hands grasping and groping
seizing opportunity, right where it lies
the sky will fall

we will rise
-The Mountain Goats, "Peacocks"

this just really makes me think of morocco, i don't know why
[Meknes, Morocco, November 2006]

arches in a covered area on the road
[Meknes, Morocco, November 2006]

the plaza at the baab mansour, meknes.
[Meknes, Morocco, November 2006]

the plaza from a different point
[Meknes, Morocco, November 2006]

people walking near the cemetery
[Meknes, Morocco, November 2006]

towards the cemetery
[Meknes, Morocco, November 2006]

view out the window, our first night in fez
[Fez, Morocco, November 2006]

the interior courtyard of a medersa (koranic school) in meknes.
[Meknes, Morocco, November 2006]

inside a similar medersa in marrakesh
[Marrakesh, Morocco, November 2006]

taking pictures in the medersa
[Marrakesh, Morocco, November 2006]

i'm a sucker for fountains
[Marrakesh, Morocco, November 2006]

the tannery--enough said
[Fez, Morocco, November 2006]

the dyers' souk (market)
[Marrakesh, Morocco, November 2006]

highly photogenic cat
[Marrakesh, Morocco, November 2006]

juicemakers in the djemma el fnaa
[Marrakesh, Morocco, November 2006]

buckets of spices
[Marrakesh, Morocco, November 2006]

more in the spice market
[Marrakesh, Morocco, November 2006]

olive stalls
[Marrakesh, Morocco, November 2006]

sunset over the old city
[Fez, Morocco, November 2006]

i wish this came out less blurry, this would have been a really cute picture
[Fez, Morocco, November 2006]

fountain and chandelier in the marrakesh museum. like all the pictures here, there has been no editing at all.
[Marrakesh, Morocco, November 2006]

the obligatory train picture
[Between Rabat and Meknes, Morocco, November 2006]


its much drier than it looks
[Between Rabat and Meknes, Morocco, November 2006]

journeying
[Between Marrakesh and Casablanca, Morocco, November 2006]

ruth telling us to...you get the idea
[Fez, Morocco, November 2006]